Disclaimer: I don't own this, are you kidding? Matsuri Hino owns this fabulous story-line and the characters involved. *I own Rose Cross, and the Morning class trio: Noah, Victoria, and Anita*

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Bloody Rose in hand, Zero paraded the outskirts of the newly-build Cross Academy.

It had been five years since he'd seen any traces of the vampires that housed the Moon dorms, while it had been almost 2 months since the completion of Cross Academy, Version 2.0. Although only pureblood humans roamed around campus, the mentality and maturity was surely that of a Junior High student. Zero scoffed, stuffing Bloody Rose into his school uniform jacket, and continued his patrol.

"Zero, oh, Zero!" a girl ran up behind him, with long red hair curled from root to tip, and he turned around. She had bright blue eyes and a thin, beautiful face. She wore a similar black uniform and tightened the white Disciplinary Committee band on her arm. "I thought you were going to skip out again; I checked in the horse barn, and at the Headmaster's (who, Zero had noted at the re-opening of the Academy, was this girl's uncle) villa, but you weren't anywhere. You can't keep hiding out, trying to skip out on your duties like that…!"

Zero wasn't truly listening; he was having a nonchalant memory of his dear friend, who he had worked with prior to now, and had loved with all of him. His lavender eyes were distant, and the girl grabbed his arm, shaking him out of his reverie. He snapped to and looked at the girl. "I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

"You're so… infuriating, Zero Kiryuu," she blew her bangs out of her face, and Zero closed his eyes. She used to say that too… she reprimanded me on everything, and yet… He shook his head and sent her an apologetic gaze. "Don't give me that look, Zero. C'mon, we're late. We have to escort the Noon class to their dormitories."

Now that vampires no longer were welcomed at the Academy, there wasn't much of a threat against the student body. To keep up a good organization, as there were so many students at the school already, classes were split into two different classes: the Morning class and the Noon class, as there were no longer vampires at the private school.

Since Zero was 21 and already graduated from the renowned school, he was studying abroad as a renowned Vampire Hunter as his mother, father, and Headmaster Cross were. He acted as he once did, patrolling and controlling hoards of girls from the Noon class, which was almost all male. They swooned, and it was disgraceful. Even the girl he was forced to work with swooned, which made it very hard for her to stay focused on working, and is the reason Zero did a lot of the work anyway.

Similarly, boys swooned over the Morning class, as it was almost all female. Every single one was attractive and wore highly attractive attire, also thanks to Headmaster Cross's niece. They wore white blouses, normally buttoned (or unbuttoned, thanks to their whore-it-up styles), skirts that reached their knees, and normally had light hair and were well endowed.

"C'mon, Zero, walk faster!" the girl called again, and Zero furrowed his light brows.

The girl's name was Rose Cross, and was the adopted niece of the Headmaster. He did like her; he did, but not as much as he liked the Headmaster's adopted daughter, who was far from Cross Academy. He shook his head as Rose literally tugged him down the path to get ready at the Morning Class gates. Zero looked at the Gate; the same gate that belonged to the Night class years before. He turned and placed his hands at his hips as girls in black uniforms lined up behind him. "Alright, ladies, you know the drill," he spoke with his usual annoyed tone, "back up, come on, make way."

Rose was more of the quiet type when it came to her job; although she spent some time looking over her shoulder and blushing and looking like a complete buffoon, she had the type of glare that made both male and female characters back away in fear. It made him smirk, actually; he was like that, back when he was a student. Yuuki was a bit of a fangirl when it came to a specific member of the Night class. Zero found himself grinding his teeth and shook his head trying to dismiss the memory.

Three…

Zero watched as the sun blared in contrast to the bright blue sky behind the large trees at the base of the path leading toward the main building. Around this time, he and Yuuki would share a couple of instances where they silently asked the other to behave, which resulted in Yuuki's pink cheeks and Zero scoffing. He scoffed inwardly, just imagining what Yuuki used to say.

"You behave yourself, okay? No glaring, no mean comments. After all, we're supposed to be guarding the secret and keeping both classes separated; not bring them together because you had to start a fight with Lord Kaname."

If he had the strength after such a fond memory, he would've smiled. Instead, he frowned.

Two…

"I can't wait to see Master Hatsuharu!" one girl squealed, pressing her hands to her flushed cheeks.

"And Master Takeshi!" another offered with a stereotypical fangirlish screech, and Zero growled.

They're such idiots… his eyebrow twitched, and he turned to look at Rose, whose eyes were downcast uncomfortably. "Hey, Rose, pay attention. The gates are going to open any second."

One!

The gates opened, and the girls started pressing themselves forward. That's when Rose's attention turned to them and she outstretched her arms and fingers tensely. Zero looked back and watched the class start forward with knowing grins.

"Why, good afternoon, ladies!" a boy stepped from the Gate, stretching his arms over his head and staring at each of the girls surrounding him. His short, shaggy brown hair blew to the side and he outstretched a single arm to a particular group of girls. "I could hear you the moment I stepped outside! You're all looking quite cute in your uniforms today!"

Zero scoffed whole-heartedly this time; this boy, first name Noah, had taken on the personality of Hanabusa Aido. He was quite the innocent player, Zero noted, and he hated that voice of his; so high and powerful. His nose twitched at his scent: thickly painted cologne.

"Noah, you're such an idiot," a girl, Victoria, said from behind him.

"You should be used to this behavior, Tori," said another girl with long, black, straight hair that reached past her hips. Her name was Anita, but people called her Nina. Her cold, deep blue eyes looked coldly at the boy beside Tori carelessly waving around at the many girls.

Tori looked back at her friend. "I might be used to it, but that doesn't make him any less of an idiot."

"Granted," sing-sang Nina.

Zero looked over at Rose, whose eyes were menacing at the girls and boys swooning at the main three students ahead of everyone else. Rose was so focused, and Zero knew what was coming next. After watching the rest of the people walk ahead of them, the raging fan boys and fan girls behind them, Zero started to walk with Rose. "That hardly took as long as normal. Are you feeling alright, Rose?" Zero's voice was less than worried, but he was just a little curious.

"I'll be fine," Rose said abruptly, walking a few paces faster. Zero slowed and felt a hand touch his forearm. He turned and sent a somewhat friendly gaze at Maria, now five years older and Mistress of the Noon class. She sent a smile in his direction and started walking beside him.

"She's quite the fiery girl, isn't she?" her voice was teasing, and Zero let out a noise of annoyance through his nose. She grinned. "Please don't tell me you're falling for her, Zero. I always thought you were the kind of man who stuck with one love, what with the burden you bare…"

"Shut up, Maria," he said darkly. She looked at him with a triumphant, knowing grin on her face. "And wipe that smile off your mock-innocent face. You act like you… like you know about me. More than you actually do."

Maria, now eighteen and being just as tall as his chin, didn't do as the half-blood asked and simply chuckled to herself. "Besides, shouldn't you be in the Noon dorms right now? Your classes have already begun, and you're late." Zero growled at her, looking at her, then looked to the other side, staring at the cobblestone path. He was shocked he wasn't blushing. Even if I strongly preferred the Yuuki before she… became one of them I… I still…

"Zero?"

"What is it?" he said, voice distant.

"What… did Yuuki Cross look like again?"

He looked at her strangely. "Brown hair, rather short, red eyes. Why?" He could've said more, they both knew it, but what kind of man would he be talking like that about the very same kind of creature he wanted to destroy? "Maria!" he demanded, stopping as she stopped abruptly, and he followed her gaze to a figure in the distance. It appeared to be wavering, and its steps were uneven in a sloppy limp. What the hell…?

Maria turned her face as if turning to him, but didn't tear her eyes away from the figure. "Do you think it's…" her statement was cut off when she saw the figure fall on its knees after letting out a cry of exasperation, and fall face-first onto the cobblestone path. Zero couldn't bring himself to move without some sort of permission, and Maria finally tore her eyes away seconds too late when she realized Zero took a step forward. "Zero. Go. Rose will be fine."

He looked down, nodded, and ran toward the figure. This… feeling. It's like the feeling I had back then. Back when… Back when… Yuuki…

And, thus I begin to further explore my imagination. This story is a short scenario I had in my head of what would happen if Yuuki decided... well, you'll have to see, but it's something us Zeki fans have wanted to see for a while. Hopefully I do the characters justice! Let me know how I'm doing, and don't forget to review!

~Cookie

P.S. If you haven't noticed, this is also going to be a short chapter-fic, like 10 chapters with an alternate ending. So, technically 11 chapters, if I decide to do the Alternate Ending. It depends on how the rest of the story plays out with what I had in mind.